Sublime Themes In Alice Walker's Poem At Thirty-Nine

Alice Walker’s writing is encouraging, for it empowers individuals to embrace their culture, human decency, and the untold stories of those who were forgotten. She slays gender roles while fighting for the rights of everyone, and frequently describes how one can impact the life of another and how much control one should have over another’s fate in her themes. Walker’s sublime style exhibited within her works goes lengths to display her themes which are based mainly off of the passionate women she was raised around and the circumstances they overcame. She uses symbolism and metaphors to highlight the themes within her works. Transition needed. carefully cultivates texts that demonstrate her ability to appeal to the minds of the common populace.

“He would have grown to admire the woman I’ve become: cooking, writing, chopping wood, staring into the fire.” ( Poem at Thirty Nine lines 41-45). Walker describes herself cutting firewood and looking at a fire. The firewood symbolizes her being able to do the same activities as men and the fire is opposition. A majority of people believe that men and women are on different levels and should not be compared, for men are able to do more than women. Walker does more than just put her female characters on the same level as the males, she has them excel past the expectations. Her female characters are distinguished and impactful similar to her ancestors. Explain/transition. Alice Walker, like her characters, rises up to the challenge and demonstrates her ability to take a simple sentence and make it a philosophy. Annihilating gender roles, she displays how incredibly influential women can be as individuals in her texts although not all of her female characters are dominant

For instance in, “ Poem at Thirty-Nine” she describes her father, “ He cooked like a person dancing in a yoga meditation and craved the voluptuous sharing of good food.” (“Poem at Thirty-Nine” 27-33). Walker writes using words with positive connotations to show what could be considered the soul of her character. A character 's soul is how they are perceived by the world, what influence they want to have on the world, what a reader believes said character has in their heart, and how the character expresses their feelings. All in all, their soul is their hopes and dreams and how the character goes about to make them a reality. The theme of the poem above is the deep, meaningful relationship that lies between a father and a daughter along with the idea that within a loving relationship gender roles do not exist She uses her words to paint a picture and uses similes as the paint. For instance, in the quote above she describes the humor in her father and the way that her would conduct himself. She describes him in a loving tone that displays how much she cares about him. She uses the word dancing to indicate how free spirited he was while also illustrates his passion for food or more specifically the sharing of food. Her words take her father and bring his personality and soul appear in the mind of the reader. In the eyes of her father, Alice Walker is just a human who can do anything, and because she is his